Missouri Southern State University - Crossroads Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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Wildca'l's Win 20-I6 Over Missouri Souihern Souihern 'roured 'ro Wayne, Nebraska, Sepiember 28 io play Wayne Siaie Wildcais in our Jrhird game. ln a come-from-behind score ihe Wildcais scored a 20-I6 viciory over The Lions. Lions look The lead wiih Beri Davis' 38-yard field goal in ihe firsi quarler. Early in The Third, l-larold Founiain scored for 9-7, Davis made Jrhe poini bringing Jrhe score Jro a Lion IO-7 lead. Wozniak and Dale Green made Sou+hern's final TD wii'h 8:02 remaining, bul ihe Wayne Siaiers Jripped +he score 'For iheir viciory. Arkansas S+omps Soufhern For 29-I3 Vic+ory The fourlh game of ihe season played on Jrhe home grid saw Johnson's Lions suffer Their fourih consecuiive loss-This Time Jro +he Slale College of Arkansas, Rus- sellville, Ark. The Bears held Jrhe score uniil Pal' Wozniak and Dale Green scored on a 42-yard pass play. Wi'rh 4:2l leii in The quar- ier, The Lions kicked wide for a 27-6 score. MSC scored wilh I4 seconds lei? for a final 29- I3 score. MSC Levelecl 53-0 For Arkansas Tech Win Whal' could you say, This iusf wasn r our bag!

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Victory Elucles Southern In Season Openers For Jim Johnson's Missouri SouThern Lions The I968 TooTball season began wiTh discouraging deTeaT. The enTire SouThern baclcTield Trom The '67 season was no longer wiTh usp Johnson depended on PaT Wozniak, a TransTer sTudenT Trom Kansas STaTe UniversiTy and Marcel Charron, Trom Canada who was lasT season's number Two quarTerbacl4. Charron, BryanT Davis, Dale Green, Woznialc, and Team sTay in There and Give 'em l-lell, Lions! FirsT OuTing Proves FaTalg Lions Tamed 45-0 In Their TirsT ouTing in Tour-year compeTiTion Jim Johnson's Lions suTTered a seTbaclc playing NorTh- easTern Oklahoma STaTe College aT Tahleguah. The opening game oT The season saw The Redmen Throw Two Touchdowns and Three scoring sTrikes Tor a 45-O vicTory over Mis- souri SouThern Lions. Aggies Cage Lions ln Home Opener The home opener was played in Joplin's Junge sTadium where SouThern meT wiTh The Panhandle STaTe Aggies oT Goodwill, Okla- homa. The Aggies slipped by The Lions Tor a 2 I - I O vicTory. The score was Tied 7-all wiTh Two minuTes leTT in The halT when a 34-yard pass Trom PaT Wozniak To Lon- nie McAllisTer was complefed Tor a TD. In The closing seconds OT The halT MSC was ahead IO-7, buT The game was puT ouT oT reach wiTh Aggie Touchdowns in The Third and TourTh quarTers.

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Lions Squelch Northwood Institute 48-Op Gain First Season Win In Maple Leaf Bowl Missouri Southern's Lions, paced by quarterback Rex Perry and tailback Sam Keahoiha, unleashed the potential ener- gy they had been storing tor tive weeks and rolled to a 48-O victory over North- wood lnstitute ot Cedar Hill, Texas, in the tirst annual Maple Leat Bowl tussie at Carthage, Saturday, October I9. The win was the tirst tor the Lions in collegiate competition. Northwood sut- tered its titth setback in as many outings. Perry, replacing the iniured Pat Woz- niak, completed eight ot II passes tor I63 yards and rushed tor 57 yards in eight carries as the Lions built up a 42-O bulge at the halt. Keaholha, whose appearance in the contest was his tirst ot the season, led the potent MSC ground attack with 79 yards on I7 tries. Southern scored the tirst two times it touched the ball to roll up a I4-O bulge at the end ot the tirst quarter. A 55-yard scoring aerial from Perry to Leonard Gay and Kenny l-lall's 77-yard punt return accounted tor the TDs. Bert Davis booted both PATS. Johnson's Lions scored tour times in the second quarter to put the game on ice. The tallies came on a 32-yard iaunt by Perry, a 25-yard pass trom Perry to Gay, a IO-yard scamper by James Scot- ta and a l-yard dash by Joe Kodba. Perry connected with Dale Green tor 37 yards and a touchdown to close out the scoring in the third quarter. MSC rolled up 232 yards rushing, l99 passing, and IIO on punt, kickott, and pass interception returns while limit- ing the Bears to IO3 yards on the ground and 78 through the air lanes. The Lion secondary picked ott tive enemy aerials. -by Jim Moss Right: Carthage Marble tootbali tro- phy, the winner's prize.